Shoe rack



1951 A. L. ELLIS 2,564,523

SHOE RACK Filed April- 5, 1946 FIG. 2.

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mm W 12 Patented Aug. 14, 1951 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to a shoe rack which is adapted to be attached to a bed and support shoes placed therein above the floor out of sight beneath the bed.

An object of this invention is to provide a device of this character that can be attached longitudinally of the bed to the rail and spring thereof or transversely of the bed to the opposite rails thereof.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device that is simple in construction, durable in use, efficient in operation and inexpensive to manufacture.

With the above and other objects and advantages in view the invention consists of the novel details of construction, arrangement and combination of parts, more fully hereinafter described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure l is a side elevation of a bed having an embodiment of the invention attached thereto longitudinally thereof;

Figure 2 is a sectional view on the line 2--2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is the same as Figure 1 with the lever attached transversely of the bed;

Figure 4 is a sectional view on the line 4-4 of Figure 3;

Figure 5 is a plan view of the rack;

Figure 6 is a sectional view on the line 6-6 of Figure 5;

Figure 7 is a sectional view on the line 'I-l of Figure 6 and Figure 8 is a perspective view partly broken of the rack supporting hook.

Referring more in detail to the drawing the rack It comprises side Walls l2 and end walls I4 which are secured together in any well known manner to form the rectangular shaped frame on which are secured to the top thereof parallel spaced slats or bars [5.

In Figure 1 the rack Ill is shown attached to engaging the metal straps joining the springs of the unit.

Thus there has been provided a rack which can be suspended below a bed either transversely or longitudinally thereof. The hooks supporting the rack being of any length desired according to the desires of the user thereof so that the rack is hidden beneath the bed but elevated from the floor.

It is believed that the construction and manner of use of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art and it is to be understood that changes in the minor details of construction, arrangement and combination of parts may be resorted to provided they fall within the spirit of the invention and the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is:

In a device of the character described, the combination of a bed having side rails and a box spring of the type that has no covering on its lower surface, and a rack, having end walls and side walls connected to form a rectangular shaped frame, transverse slats secured to the upper marginal longitudinal edges of said frame, a plurality of approximately S-shaped removable hooks engaged with each corner of the rack for suspending said rack beneath said bed longitudinally thereof by connecting the upper end of each hook at the opposite corners of one side rail and the upper ends of the other two hooks to the lower side of the box spring and the lower end of each hook to the rack.

A. LEIGHTON ELLIS.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS the bed I8 longitudinally thereof by hooks 20 Number Name Date which engage the rail 22 of the bed in spaced 520,191 Snead et a1, May 22, 1894 relation to each other and the side wall l2 of 726,393 Barcalo Apr. 28, 1903 the rack on one side thereof. The other side 862,686 Wallace Aug. 6, 1907 bein supp rt d by th ooks 0 a in t 873,488 De Beaumont et a1. Dec. 10, 1907 inner spring 24 of the box spring 26 and the 394,706 Schubert July 28, 1908 opposite side rail 12 of the rack ID or as shown 957,890 Krejci May 10, 1910 in Figure 3 the rack can be suspended trans- 1,333,692 Wester Mar. 16, 1920 versely of the bed by having all four hooks 20 1,524,065 Timpson Jan. 27, 1925 en a in the sid ra 2 f th 1,766,190 Rosenberg et a1. June 24, 1930 The box spring 26 is of a type that has no cover 2,241, 96 Bender May 13, 1941 adjacent the lower surface so that the hooks may readily enter the spring structure. The hooks 5 FOREIGN PATENTS can engage the coils of the spring or they can Number Country Date engage the metal straps by which the individual 211,026 Great Britain Feb. 14, 1924 springs are joined to form the unitary bed spring 274,201 Great Britain July 18, 1927 structure. As shown in Figure 2 the hook is 

